One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPersistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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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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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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One hand washes the other.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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