To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Every journey has an end.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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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 comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Time discovers truth.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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