Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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