Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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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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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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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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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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After death there is nothing.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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