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.

Quote by Seneca

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Time discovers truth.

Time discovers truth.

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

He who has great power should use it lightly.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money

Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use:...

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use:...

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because...

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because...

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

You are your choices.

You are your choices.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be...

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be...

Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.

Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion

We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than...

We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than...

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age,...

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age,...

At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at...

At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at...

By night an atheist half believes in a God

By night an atheist half believes in a God

Why do you feel safe under blankets? Its not like a murderer will come in...

Why do you feel safe under blankets? Its not like a murderer will come in...