Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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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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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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