He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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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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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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