The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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