Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho timidly requests invites refusal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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If you judge, investigate.
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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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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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