It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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