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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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