[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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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 man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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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.
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