No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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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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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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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.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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