Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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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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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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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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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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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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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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