The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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