What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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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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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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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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