Seneca the Younger Quotes About Joy
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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Learn how to feel joy.
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