The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPeople do not die – they kill themselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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