You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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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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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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