Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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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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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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