A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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