If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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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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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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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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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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