What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGERGod is near you, is with you, is inside you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Every journey has an end.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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