Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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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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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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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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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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