Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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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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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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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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One hand washes the other.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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