Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn every good man a God doth dwell.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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