You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREven after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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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.
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