The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERChoose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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