Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Time discovers truth.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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If you judge, investigate.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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