There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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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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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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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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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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