No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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One hand washes the other.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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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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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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