To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck never made a man wise.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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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