Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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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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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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