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?”
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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One hand washes the other.
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Men learn while they teach.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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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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