One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho timidly requests invites refusal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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If you judge, investigate.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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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 world itself is too small for the covetous.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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