Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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