He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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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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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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