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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Set 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?”
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Men learn while they teach.
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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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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