Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhere reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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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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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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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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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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