There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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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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Men learn while they teach.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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He 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.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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