A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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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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