Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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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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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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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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