To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREnjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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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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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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