The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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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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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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