What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe expression of truth is simplicity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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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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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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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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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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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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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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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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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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