Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGERWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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