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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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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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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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