We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as you live, learn how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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