Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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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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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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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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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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