The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Men learn while they teach.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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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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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Every journey has an end.
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