Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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