A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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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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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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