Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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He who is brave is free.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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