It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Men learn while they teach.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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After death there is nothing.
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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 young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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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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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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