We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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