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.
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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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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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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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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