When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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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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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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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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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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