Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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