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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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