If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGenius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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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 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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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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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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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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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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