It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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 first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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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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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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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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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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