The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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