The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA thousand approaches lie open to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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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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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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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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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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