It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhatever begins, also ends.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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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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