The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He who is brave is free.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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After death there is nothing.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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