You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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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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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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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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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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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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His head was turned by too great success.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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