The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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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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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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One hand washes the other.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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