Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAlthough 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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After death there is nothing.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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