Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Time discovers truth.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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