Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGERCourage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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One hand washes the other.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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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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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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