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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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