It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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After death there is nothing.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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