He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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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.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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