He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIts harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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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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