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 YOUNGERConsider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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His head was turned by too great success.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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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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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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If you judge, investigate.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Time discovers truth.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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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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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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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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