Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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