We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuch 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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