The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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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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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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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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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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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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