Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSo live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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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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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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