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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPeople do not die – they kill themselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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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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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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