Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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After death there is nothing.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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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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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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