You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLife is long if you know how to use it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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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?
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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