They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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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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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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