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 YOUNGERHe that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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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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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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