Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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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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