Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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