In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Men learn while they teach.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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