There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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