It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo live is not a blessing, but to live well.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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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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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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