We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGERInjustice never rules forever.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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