The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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 willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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