The world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To the stars through difficulties.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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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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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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