Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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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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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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One hand washes the other.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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