The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhere reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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