Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVice may be learnt, even without a teacher
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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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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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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