You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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MALCOLM FORBES When you cease to dream you cease to live.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES When you cease to dream you cease to live.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
MALCOLM S. FORBES When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
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KAHLIL GIBRAN Love is when you cease hesitating.
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DIMIEARI VON KEMEDI When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind,
But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
THOMAS CAMPBELL Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
THOMAS CAMPBELL We hope they'll cease from the work until then. It doesn't sound like there's any room to negotiate.
BILL RAMS When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.
CHINESE PROVERB The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
J.M. BARRIE Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
JOHN STUART MILL Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
JOHN STUART MILL Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
JOHN STUART MILL Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so
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FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD its obstruction (of the probe) has to cease and cease immediately.
JOHN BOLTON Poor Catullus, cease your folly and give up for lost what you see is lost.
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DAVID W. JONES War will cease when men refuse to fight.
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You know that it is there, lair
where the bear ceases
for a time eve...
FRANK BIDART Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
T.S. ELIOT Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
CHARLES OLSON To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be
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JOHN WOODEN For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and
the moment you doubt whether yo...
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SCOTTIE SOMERS Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
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SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to
live in necessity.
[Lat., Malum est...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hom...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a
kindness.
[Lat., Unicumque homo est...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which
is the proper judge of the man.
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to
yourself.
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his own work, may direct his gaze...
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war.
[Lat., Gaudent magni viri r...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
[Lat., Multa trepidus solet
Detegere vultus.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy.
[Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the
father of his country.
[Lat., Ser...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus
keeps his height, even if he stands in...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
[Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discord...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est tur...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) [Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company
with whom you eat and drink, than...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) No possession is gratifying without a companion.
[Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly.
[Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that
received it disclose it.
[Lat., Q...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
[Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the
intention of the giver or doer.
[Lat....
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Whatever begins, also ends.
[Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
[Lat., Qui timide rogat,
Docet negare.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigun...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
[Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
[Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non spo...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command.
[Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Revenge is an inhuman word.
[Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which
has been bestowed upon him; he is...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
[Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibu...
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[Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
[Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Whom they have injured they also hate.
[Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
[Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The voice is nothing but beaten air.
[Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Every monarch is subject to a mightier one.
[Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu v...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Poison is drunk out of gold.
[Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been
unfortunate. for it has never been...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that
sense of shame which, once lost, can...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) They laboriously do nothing.
[Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger
that is felt towards men?
[Lat., Q...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
[Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium si...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
[Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insa...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
[Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare qu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) That grief is light which can take counsel.
[Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to
the law.
[Lat., Quam angusta inn...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If
weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare th...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
[Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Every change of place becomes a delight.
[Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
[Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adfli...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent....
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it
through despite to languish long time i...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The throne of another is not stable for thee.
[Lat., Alieno in loco
Haud stabile regnum est.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
[Lat., Id facere laus est quod dec...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
[Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate
misfortunes. What madness it is in your e...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
[Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
[Lat., Miserias properant suas
Audire miser...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
[Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Mercy often inflicts death.
[Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Great grief does not of itself put an end itself.
[Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness,
even while receiving it.
[Lat.,...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as
little dogs do at strangers.
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good
become the slaves of the impious; m...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He
overthrows them altogether: such is the e...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
[Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonit...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA)