There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERModesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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