While crime is punished it yet increases.
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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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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