How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men learn while they teach.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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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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One hand washes the other.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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