Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
SENECAHe who spares the wicked injures the good.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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A good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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He who is brave is free.
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After death there is nothing.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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