Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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