Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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