You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Time discovers truth.
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Every journey has an end.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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One hand washes the other.
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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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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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