Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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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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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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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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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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