In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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