You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSo live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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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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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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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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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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