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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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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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One hand washes the other.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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