A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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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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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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