A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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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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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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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