There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men learn while they teach.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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