A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet the weary at length possess quiet rest.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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