One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Time discovers truth.
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Whatever 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.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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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.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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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 fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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