There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIndolence is stagnation; employment is life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To the stars through difficulties.
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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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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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