Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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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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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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