Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGod is near you, is with you, is inside you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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How 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.
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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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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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One hand washes the other.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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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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