What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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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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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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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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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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