Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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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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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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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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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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