Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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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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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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After death there is nothing.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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