Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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After death there is nothing.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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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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