Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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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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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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