You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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He who is brave is free.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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