Be harsh with yourself at times.
SENECA THE YOUNGERModesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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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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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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