The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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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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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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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 mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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