Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGERModesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck never made a man wise.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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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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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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