Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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