The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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