To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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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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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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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After death there is nothing.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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