Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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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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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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