The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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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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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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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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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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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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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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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All 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.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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