There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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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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