Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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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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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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