What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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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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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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