The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMisfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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One hand washes the other.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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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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