He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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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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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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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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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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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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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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