It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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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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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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