To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne crime has to be concealed by another.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Time discovers truth.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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