The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGo on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Men learn while they teach.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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