But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhere reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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