Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe expression of truth is simplicity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Every journey has an end.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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