But 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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBegin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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