Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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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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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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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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