The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGreatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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