What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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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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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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