Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSo live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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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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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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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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