Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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If you judge, investigate.
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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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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Shall 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.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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