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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNobody becomes guilty by fate.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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