All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile crime is punished it yet increases.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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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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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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