Injustice never rules forever.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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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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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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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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Life without literary studies is death.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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