No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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