Every journey has an end.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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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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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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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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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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