Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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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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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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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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No crime has been without a precedent.
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