Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccess is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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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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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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