Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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