When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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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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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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