If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVice may be learnt, even without a teacher
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Every journey has an end.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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