One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA thousand approaches lie open to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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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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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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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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