Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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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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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Every journey has an end.
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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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After death there is nothing.
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