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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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