They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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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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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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