No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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