Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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