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Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

Seneca the Younger
Time, Calendars, Given

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

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Masters, Ashamed, Servitude
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 699, Troades, 989, 1922.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

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Philosophy, Fall, Arrows

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

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Vices, Drunkenness

That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

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Loss, Negligence

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

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Courage, Riches, Fortune
"Medea", CLXXVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 142-44, 1922.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

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Love, Sorrow, Speak

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

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Life, Success, Son

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

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Hero, Adversity, Men

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

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Men, Leisure, Study

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

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Mind, Benefits, Giver
"De Beneficiis". Book by Seneca the Younger, I. 1,

It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

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Causes, Proof

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

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Greed, Worst, Ingratitude

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

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Action, Persevere, Disposition

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

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Relaxation, Mind, Stronger

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

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Slavery, Slave, Be A Slave

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

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Time, Lasts, Moments

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

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Teacher, Learning, Vices

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

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Encouragement, Philosophical, Doe
"The Trojan Women". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1st century AD.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

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Men, Doors

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

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Companionship, Drink, Should
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Epistles, XIX, 1922.

Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

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Science, Danger, Cures

Learn how to feel joy.

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Happiness, Joy, Feels

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

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Adversity, Men, Brave

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

Seneca the Younger
Life, Differences, Doe

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