He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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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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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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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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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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