The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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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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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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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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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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