Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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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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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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