There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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A 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.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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