Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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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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One hand washes the other.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Every journey has an end.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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