Life without literary studies is death.
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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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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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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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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