Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men learn while they teach.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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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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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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