It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVirtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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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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