Seneca the Younger Quotes About Failing

• It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Philosophical, Able

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• If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Art, Men

  "De Brevitate, XX" by Seneca the Younger, 49 AD.

• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Guilt, Bars

• It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

  Seneca the Younger

  Failing, Impulse

• Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Failing, Reason, Cures

• Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Believe, Men, Long

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