If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERRevenge is an inhuman word.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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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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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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