He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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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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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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