He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Time discovers truth.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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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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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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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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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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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