Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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