Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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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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No crime has been without a precedent.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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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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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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