The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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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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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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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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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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