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 YOUNGERIn every good man a God doth dwell.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men learn while they teach.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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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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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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