Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBelieve me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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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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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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He who is brave is free.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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