Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReligion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Every journey has an end.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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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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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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After death there is nothing.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Men learn while they teach.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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