What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhere reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Time discovers truth.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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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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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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