Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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If you judge, investigate.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Time discovers truth.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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