[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful villany is called virtue.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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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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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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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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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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