Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Time discovers truth.
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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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