Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGEREternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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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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