Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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