No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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