What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGERShall 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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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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One hand washes the other.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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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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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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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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