There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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If you judge, investigate.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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