Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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After death there is nothing.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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