When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIts harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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