If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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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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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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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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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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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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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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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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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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