A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERCourage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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If you judge, investigate.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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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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