Luck never made a man wise.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSlavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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