Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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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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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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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 willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Time discovers truth.
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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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