There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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He who is brave is free.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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One hand washes the other.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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