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.
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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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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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!
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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