It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Just 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.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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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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