It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA great fortune is a great slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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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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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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