It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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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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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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