The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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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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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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After death there is nothing.
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