There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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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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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Time discovers truth.
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