Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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After death there is nothing.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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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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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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