Every journey has an end.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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