Common Calamity Quotes by Seneca the Younger

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• We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
• Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
• A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take…
• Everything hangs on one's thinking.
• 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.
• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
• There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
• Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
• Man is a social animal.
• A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
• For greed, all nature is too little.

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