Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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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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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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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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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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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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