Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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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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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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One hand washes the other.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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