Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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