Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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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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Life without literary studies is death.
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