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Letter "S" » Seneca Quotes
«Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams»
«Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.»
Author: Seneca
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chess, chess game, chess player, earthen, emptiness, manifest, pot, shattered
«While we are postponing, life speeds by.»
«Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.»
«Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war»
«The comfort of having a friend may be taken away - but not that of having had one.»
«Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.»
Author: Seneca
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chronic, console, fresh, offensive, on the offensive, ridiculed, rightly, The Chronic
«Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.»
«There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow»
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