There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBut when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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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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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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