No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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