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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What 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.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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