When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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