Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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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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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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