Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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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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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Time discovers truth.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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