There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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