The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile crime is punished it yet increases.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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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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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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