Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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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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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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