There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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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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One hand washes the other.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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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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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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If you judge, investigate.
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