Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery journey has an end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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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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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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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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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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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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One hand washes the other.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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