It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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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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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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