Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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