Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
SENECA THE YOUNGERStudy rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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