There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Every journey has an end.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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