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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me. -- Seneca | Adversity Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Adversity at Amazon.com The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. -- Seneca | Adversity Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Adversity at Amazon.com Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. -- Seneca | Adversity Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Adversity at Amazon.com Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. -- Seneca | Adversity Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Adversity at Amazon.com The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. -- Seneca | Adversity Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Adversity at Amazon.com Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. -- Seneca | Advice Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Advice at Amazon.com As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still. -- Seneca | Age and Aging Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Age and Aging at Amazon.com There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world. -- Seneca | Age and Aging Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Age and Aging at Amazon.com Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. -- Seneca | Alcohol and Alcoholism Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Alcohol and Alcoholism at Amazon.com It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. -- Seneca | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. -- Seneca | Ancestry Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Ancestry at Amazon.com No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. -- Seneca | Ancestry Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Ancestry at Amazon.com He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. -- Seneca | Ancestry Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Ancestry at Amazon.com Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. -- Seneca | Anger Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Anger at Amazon.com The greatest remedy for anger is delay. -- Seneca | Anger Send to friend | View Books by Seneca at Amazon.com | Books about Anger at Amazon.com Quote: 1-15 of 183 Pages: 1 of 13 next  View all quotes