Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIts harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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