People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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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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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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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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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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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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