The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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He who is brave is free.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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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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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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