A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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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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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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