I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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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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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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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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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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After death there is nothing.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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