He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Men learn while they teach.
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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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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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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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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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