While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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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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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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He who is brave is free.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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