What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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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All art is but imitation of nature.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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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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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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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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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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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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