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.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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