#to

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#beautiful #most #most beautiful #qualities #true

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#account #acquired #brought #call #day

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#anger #anything #harm #more #poured

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#expecting #greatest #impediment #living #loses

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#little #man #more #poor #too

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#branch #clear #devote #entirely #exclusively

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#great #great genius #madness #some #touch

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hostility #much #rule #too #too much

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#becomes #bereft #commander #dependence #deserves

You learn to know a pilot in a storm. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#learn #pilot #storm #you