A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERModesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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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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