You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFour things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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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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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Every journey has an end.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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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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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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