Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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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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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Time discovers truth.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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