There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGERStudy rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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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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