No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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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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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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