Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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