If you wish to be loved, love.
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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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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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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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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