Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Every journey has an end.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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