It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Every journey has an end.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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