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 YOUNGEREnjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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