The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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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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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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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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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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Time discovers truth.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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