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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hurt #imagination #more #often #reality

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#even #gods #often #one thing #pray

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#chronic #console #finds #fresh #grief

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#apprehension #harm #more #often #reality

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#better off #consider #how #many #off

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#crimes #most #offensive #success

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#never #often #repeated #sufficiently #too

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#even #false #lowly #often #only

I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#country #done #else #history #i

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#means #often #our #own #prevailing