It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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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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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Men learn while they teach.
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