There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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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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Epicurus 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.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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We 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!
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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