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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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