Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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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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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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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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