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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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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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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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One hand washes the other.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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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