Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Men learn while they teach.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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