You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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