If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIndolence is stagnation; employment is life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Time discovers truth.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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He who is brave is free.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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