It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVirtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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