There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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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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