If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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He who is brave is free.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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