Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHuman society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Life without literary studies is death.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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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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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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