What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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