He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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