Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile crime is punished it yet increases.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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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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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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