Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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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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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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