Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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One hand washes the other.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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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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