Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAfter death there is nothing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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