Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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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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He who is brave is free.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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