Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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