Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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One hand washes the other.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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