Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To the stars through difficulties.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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