There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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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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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.
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