Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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