One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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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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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Every journey has an end.
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