There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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He who is brave is free.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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