It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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His head was turned by too great success.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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