There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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One hand washes the other.
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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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Luck never made a man wise.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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