The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSlavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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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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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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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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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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