He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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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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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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