He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGER[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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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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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Injustice never rules forever.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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