Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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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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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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