A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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One hand washes the other.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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