For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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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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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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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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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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