In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo crime has been without a precedent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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