What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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