Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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