I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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