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Adversity
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Adversity
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Adversity
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Age
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. -- Seneca

Anger
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. -- Seneca

Conflict
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Courage
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Culture
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

Destiny
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

Expectation
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Fortune
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. -- Seneca

Giving
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. -- Seneca

Government
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Grief
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. -- Seneca

Grief
That grief is light which can take counsel. -- Seneca

Health
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Heart
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. -- Seneca

Intelligence
A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Intelligence
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness. -- Seneca

Life
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Life
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. -- Seneca

Life
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. -- Seneca

Love
If you wished to be loved, love.

Power
He who has great power should use it lightly. -- Seneca

Prayer
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers. -- Seneca

Religion
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Seneca

Religion
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. -- Seneca

Success
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Time
Time heals what reason cannot.

Time
Time discovers truth.

Travel
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. -- Seneca

Want
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. -- Seneca

Weakness
All cruelty springs from weakness. -- Seneca