If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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After death there is nothing.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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