When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGenius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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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 road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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