That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHappy 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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