The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe expression of truth is simplicity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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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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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Time discovers truth.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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