If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Every journey has an end.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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