One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLife without literary studies is death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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