Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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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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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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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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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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He who is brave is free.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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