How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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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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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Time discovers truth.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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