The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life without literary studies is death.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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One hand washes the other.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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