Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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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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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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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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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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