A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who is brave is free.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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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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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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