The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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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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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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