Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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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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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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