Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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