The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Every journey has an end.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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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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Luck never made a man wise.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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