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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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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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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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