The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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