There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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After death there is nothing.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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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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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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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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