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 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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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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