The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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He who is brave is free.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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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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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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