Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVirtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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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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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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