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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERJust as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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His head was turned by too great success.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Injustice never rules forever.
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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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