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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.


Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking per...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than rea...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sk...
SENECA Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
SENECA Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA Suppose we've chosen the wrong god
SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
SENECA Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
SENECA Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
SENECA Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
SENECA Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
SENECA It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
SENECA One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavat)
SENECA True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse our...
SENECA What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
SENECA If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness
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