He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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