The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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