A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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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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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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