If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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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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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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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