You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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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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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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