"How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?"
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Seneca the Younger quotes (page 52 of 57)
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"Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it."
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"The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will."
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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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"The fear of war is worse than war itself."
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"It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none."
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"If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane."
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"Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause."
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"The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own."
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"Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness."
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"It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity."
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"Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing."
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"To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature."
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"But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!"
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"A great fortune is a great slavery."
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"He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich."
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"Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration."
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"Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more."
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"No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow."
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"Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound."
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