There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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We 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.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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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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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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