It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGERModesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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