It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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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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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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