He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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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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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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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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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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