Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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