Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhile crime is punished it yet increases.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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