Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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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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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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