He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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If you judge, investigate.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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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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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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