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.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery journey has an end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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