But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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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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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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