Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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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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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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