It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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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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To the stars through difficulties.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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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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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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