The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPhilosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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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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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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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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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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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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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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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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