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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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