Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGERModesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Men learn while they teach.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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