In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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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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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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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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