You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe expression of truth is simplicity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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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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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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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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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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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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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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