All 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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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