It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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