Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet 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?”
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men learn while they teach.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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If you judge, investigate.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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