It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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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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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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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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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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