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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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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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