No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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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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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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