Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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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