Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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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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