Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBut when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Men learn while they teach.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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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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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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