Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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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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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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