To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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One hand washes the other.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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