It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReasons 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Every journey has an end.
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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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Life without literary studies is death.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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