Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPoverty needs much, avarice everything.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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