A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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