If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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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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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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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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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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