Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Every journey has an end.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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