Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuch as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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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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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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