What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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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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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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