"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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Seneca the Younger quotes (page 54 of 57)
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"The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes."
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"A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many."
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"Unjust dominion cannot be eternal."
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"The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual."
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"The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error."
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"The arts are the servant; wisdom its master."
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"It is pleasant at times to play the madman."
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"It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses."
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"Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance."
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"While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned."
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"He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen."
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"Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to."
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"There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it."
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"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]"
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"[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories."
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"Who has more leisure than a worm?"
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"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."
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"The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious."
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"Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives."
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