For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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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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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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