The sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVirtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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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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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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