Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
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He would not bring this case, at what is probably the end of his career, unless it was a case with great merit.
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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
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Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.
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Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
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Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
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What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
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...she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.
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Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
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Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.
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A smile, a wave, a thank you and a hug... It's often the smallest things that make the biggest difference.
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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
