Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you wish to be loved, love.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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We 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.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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