Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca the Younger

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• Soul
• Sorrow
• Ignorant

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• To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Sorrow