We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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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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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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