Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHappy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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He who is brave is free.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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