I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SenecaLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SenecaTags: inspirational
All cruelty springs from weakness.
SenecaTags: weakness character cruelty behavior
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SenecaIf anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.
SenecaTags: education hypocrisy pith
For it is dangerous to attach one's self to the crowd in front, and so long as each one of us is more willing to trust another than to judge for himself, we never show any judgement in the matter of living, but always a blind trust, and a mistake that has been passed on from hand to hand finally involves us and works our destruction. It is the example of other people that is our undoing; let us merely separate ourselves from the crowd, and we shall be made whole. But as it is, the populace,, defending its own iniquity, pits itself against reason. And so we see the same thing happening that happens at the elections, where, when the fickle breeze of popular favour has shifted, the very same persons who chose the praetors wonder that those praetors were chosen.
SenecaTags: american-politics pith groupthink milgram mob
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
SenecaTags: suicide survival perseverance
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SenecaYou act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire
SenecaReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SenecaTags: corruption organized-religion useful common-people
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