[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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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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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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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 chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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