He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSlavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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 worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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