Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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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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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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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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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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