He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERProsperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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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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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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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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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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