Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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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Luck never made a man wise.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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