The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne hand washes the other.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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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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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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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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