Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile crime is punished it yet increases.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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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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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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