To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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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 road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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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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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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