[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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One hand washes the other.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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