What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet 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?”
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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