Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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One hand washes the other.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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