The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho timidly requests invites refusal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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