It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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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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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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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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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Time discovers truth.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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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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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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