One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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