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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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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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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