So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo crime has been without a precedent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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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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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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