Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMay be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Men learn while they teach.
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