If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll art is but imitation of nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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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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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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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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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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