Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLife is long if you know how to use it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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