Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Every journey has an end.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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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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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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