Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as you live, learn how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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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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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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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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Happy 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.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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