It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as you live, learn how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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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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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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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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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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