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 YOUNGERA great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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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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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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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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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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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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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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