Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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