Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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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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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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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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