Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Injustice never rules forever.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Time discovers truth.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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One hand washes the other.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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