If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIndolence is stagnation; employment is life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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If you judge, investigate.
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