Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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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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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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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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