"Every reign must submit to a greater reign." — Seneca the Younger
"Every reign must submit to a greater reign."
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765 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- For greed, all nature is too little.