It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccess is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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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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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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