There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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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 God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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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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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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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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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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