The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe part of life which we really live is short.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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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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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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