There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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[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.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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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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