We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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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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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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His head was turned by too great success.
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