I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Every journey has an end.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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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 fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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One hand washes the other.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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