Where fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDisease is not of the body but of the place.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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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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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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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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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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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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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