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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Every journey has an end.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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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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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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