If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGod is near you, is with you, is inside you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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