Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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