It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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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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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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One hand washes the other.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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