There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFour things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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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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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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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 greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Every journey has an end.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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