A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPersistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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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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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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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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