What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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