Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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