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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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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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If you wish to be loved, love.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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