When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe language of truth is unvarnished enough.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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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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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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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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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Time discovers truth.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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