No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile crime is punished it yet increases.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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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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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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