Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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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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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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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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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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