Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo crime has been without a precedent.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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