A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERProsperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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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 expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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