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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck never made a man wise.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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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 view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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He who is brave is free.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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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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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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