Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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