The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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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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His head was turned by too great success.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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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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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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