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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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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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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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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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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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