He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIndolence is stagnation; employment is life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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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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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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