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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConsider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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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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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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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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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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