You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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