Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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