Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Every journey has an end.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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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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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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