We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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