Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIts harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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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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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Men learn while they teach.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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