The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you judge, investigate.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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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