He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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