I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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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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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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