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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERShall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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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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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGER