It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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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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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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