He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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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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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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