There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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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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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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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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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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