The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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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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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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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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