How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER[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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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.
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