The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREnjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men learn while they teach.
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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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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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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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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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Every journey has an end.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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