A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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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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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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