Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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