He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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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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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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