Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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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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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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