Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live 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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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