The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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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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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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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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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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