Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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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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If you judge, investigate.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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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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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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