There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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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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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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