It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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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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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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