Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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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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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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