He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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After death there is nothing.
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