If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck never made a man wise.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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