The part of life which we really live is short.
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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His head was turned by too great success.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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