One hand washes the other.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNobody becomes guilty by fate.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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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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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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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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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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