What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConsider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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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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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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