It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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If you judge, investigate.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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