Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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