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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe harsh with yourself at times.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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