There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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