Where fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Shall 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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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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