Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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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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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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