It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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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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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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