The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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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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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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