A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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