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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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One hand washes the other.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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