There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
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Seneca
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Works
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Apocolocyntosis
Consolations
Dialogues and Letters
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium: Latin Text
Letters from a Stoic
Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes
Moral Essays: Volume I De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia
Moral Essays: Volume III
Moral letters to Lucilius Volume 1
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Vol. 2
Natural Questions
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
Seneca: Das gro_e Buch vom glücklichen Leben - Gesammelte Werke
The Conquest of Happiness
The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
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They laboriously do nothing.
Fire tries gold misery tries brave men.
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
What once were vices are now manners.
Man is a social animal.
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient.
As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.
Men learn while they teach.
Injustice never rules forever.
He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Learn how to feel joy.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.
The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.