Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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