You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGenius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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After death there is nothing.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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He who is brave is free.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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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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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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