A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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If you judge, investigate.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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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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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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