It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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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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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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