Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe worse a person is the less he feels it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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