He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuch 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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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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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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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 greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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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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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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