Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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After death there is nothing.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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