Why 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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck never made a man wise.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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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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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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