In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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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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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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One hand washes the other.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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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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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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