Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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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 quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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