Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Time discovers truth.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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