If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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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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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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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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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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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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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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It 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.
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