Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFour things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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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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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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