He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Every journey has an end.
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He who is brave is free.
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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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