Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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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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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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