Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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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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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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He who is brave is free.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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