Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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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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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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After death there is nothing.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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