The world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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