Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGERChoose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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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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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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