The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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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.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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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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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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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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