It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFreedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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