Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFreedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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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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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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