The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time discovers truth.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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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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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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