One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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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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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Men learn while they teach.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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