The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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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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Whatever begins, also ends.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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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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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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