We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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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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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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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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