Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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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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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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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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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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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