The sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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