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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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