The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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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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To the stars through difficulties.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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