Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Men learn while they teach.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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