Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of…
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
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What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Man is a social animal.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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For greed, all nature is too little.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either…
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
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He who is brave is free.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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