Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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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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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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