I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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