Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne crime has to be concealed by another.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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After death there is nothing.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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