There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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