The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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A thousand approaches lie open 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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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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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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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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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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