Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBehold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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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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If you wish to be loved, love.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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