Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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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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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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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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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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His head was turned by too great success.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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One hand washes the other.
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