Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDon’t stumble over something behind you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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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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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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