Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGod is near you, is with you, is inside you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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