Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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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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