Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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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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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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