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Seneca the Younger
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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Lucio Anneo Seneca
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
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If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
Seneca the Younger
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
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True love hates and will not bear delay.
Seneca the Younger
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
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