No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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