What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has great power should use it lightly.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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