I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful villany is called virtue.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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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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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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