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First Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
- The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
- The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
- To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
- Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
- The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
- Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
- Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not…
- God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
- If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
- Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
- He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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