The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Every journey has an end.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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