There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDon’t stumble over something behind you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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