Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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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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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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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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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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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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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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