While crime is punished it yet increases.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe language of truth is unvarnished enough.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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After death there is nothing.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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