He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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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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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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