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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men learn while they teach.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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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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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Time discovers truth.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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