That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose griefs burn most which gall in secret.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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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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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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